Here's a classic sheet ghost from Buffalo Bill's Rough Riders, 1890.

"The ghost's narrative," from The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, 1890.

"The spectre of Tappington," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.  Compare to this other depiction of the same scene.

"As I never turned from the living, the dead shall never turn me from my path."  From Montebello the Magnificant, 1890.

Here's the spirit of burning the midnight oil, whose mantra is perhaps "Just one more page" or "Why not finish this chapter?"  From Csataképek a Magyar Szabadságharzból by Mór Jókai, 1899.

"There's a dead body walking about the room!  One?  No!  It is not one; it is five hundred!"  From Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

"He moved his walking-stick repeatedly through the phantom," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

From The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford (1899).

"A visitant from the grave," from The Poor Girl by Pierce Egan the Younger, 1890.  (We like how the first A in the caption resembles a ghostly, upside down V.  There are V's and A's in "visitant" and "grave."  As above, so below.)

Here's a spirit trumpet interpenetrating a seance table, from The Reality of Psychic Phenomena: Raps, Levitations, Etc. by William Jackson Crawford, 1916.  We wish we'd encountered this diagram in time for our guide to Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

"A silvery and blue tinted flame sprung up from each," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

It's a fine line Where Ghosts Walk by Marion Harland, 1898.

From Stories in Rhyme for Holiday Time, written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and illustrated by Walter Satterlee, 1884.

Leftovers are haunting ghosts.  "The cold beef and ham appear a third time."  From Hypocrites by Hugh Coleman Davidson and illustrated by René, 1892.

From Mary with Many Friends by Georgina M. Moore, 1878.

Here's the spirit of "Running with Scissors" (maybe), from The Literary Digest, 1890.